After a successful career, Lisa Melinda Barry has returned home to the family business - disabled access specialist SSL Scotland and SSL Access.

Barry said: "It is a source of great personal satisfaction for me to keep the business running on a sound footing. Because it is a family concern, we are really focused on delivering the highest possible standards for our clients and creating fulfilling job opportunities in the local area.

"I run the business with my brother, Marc, who is something of an entrepreneur, like my mother is. I see myself more as a business person, with a solid understanding of the financial implica-tionof the decisions we have to make."

As managing director Barry has a strategic role directing the long-term direction of the business.

However, she still tries to be hands-on and will answer phones when needed.

On one occasion when nearly all her staff were laid low by a vicious flu epidemic she went out in her business suit to repair a stairlift while the client and his family looked on bemused.

Following business courses at Reid Kerr College and the Glasgow College of Building and Printing, Barry took a number of roles in the motor trade.

She became the first woman in the UK to sell contract hire for heavy vehicles.

She also had stints at Natwest and Barclays before coming home to the family company. Although she enjoys business she gets as much satisfaction from directly affecting the quality of life for her clients and making a real difference to their mobility options.

She said: "We are dealing with very personal areas of people's lives and there are many issues which have to be handled with delicacy and sensitivity.

"Running your own business is all about finding solutions to problems and having a can-do attitude."

Barry hopes to extend the existing premises in Glasgow and double staff numbers in the next five years.